How To Use Forebode In A Sentence

  • It would go hard with them, Billy foreboded gloomily. CHAPTER X
  • Yet it was there, shouting its message of warning through every tissue cell, every nerve quickness and brain sensitivity of him — a totality of sensation that foreboded the ultimate catastrophe of life about which he knew nothing at all, but which, nevertheless, he felt to be the conclusive supreme disaster. CHAPTER VI
  • The current crop of appointments forebode a continuation ofNeo-con imperialism with Neo-Lib trimmings. Interview with Steve Hildebrand; Steve, Did you tell Progressives to Shut the F Up?
  • This just shows certain resentment in the party for Obama, and could forebode him having trouble keeping discipline in the ranks. Feingold: McCain "Calls 'Em As He Sees 'Em"
  • Is called Hampshire and Sussex the storm-cock, because its song is supposed to forebode windy wet weather: it is the largest singing bird we have. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
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  • Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. Joe Pantoliano: Stigma Ain't What It Used To Be
  • Westerland, who had seen that look on other faces and knew what it foreboded, suffered severe feelings of misgiving. The Elvis Latte
  • The replacement of Mottaki by Salehi could forebode changes in Iran's foreign policy, said the Ayandeh Web site, which is close to former intelligence officials. Iran replaces foreign minister
  • --- More than anything in the world the procurator hated the smell of rose oil, and now everything foreboded a bad day, because this smell had been pursuing the procurator since dawn. Archive 2008-04-01
  • He turns without thinking to the one following him to ask him to zip him back up in again, realizing with horror after a moment exactly what this must forebode.
  • Paper money had depreciated, and the conditions foreboded a crash.
  • Instead, the building forebode claustrophobia and sadness. Dreamseller: The Calling
  • What promise of high mystical things to come there is in the mere syllabling of the noble verse, and how it enlarges us from ourselves, for that time at least, to a disembodied unity with the troubled soul whose martyry seems foreboded in the solemn accents! Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)
  • I foreboded that I might fail.
  • The murder scene in question involves a roadside massacre that's foreboded with each flashback scene during the questioning of the three witnesses. Rabid Rewind: Surveillance
  • The prevalence of infi - delity, immorality and vice as surely indicates ap - proaching calamities, as clouds indicate a shower, winds forebode a storm, or the conjunction, or op - position of the sun and moon, in certain places in the heavens, presignifying an eclipse. Sermons delivered on various occasions : first published singly, now republished and collected into a volume, with two new one, never before printed
  • It forebodes a deeper commitment than we have seen evidence of in just the 10 episodes.
  • However, Suetonius relates that Octavius, surnamed Augustus, was so weak as to believe that a fish, which leaped from the sea upon the shore at Actium, foreboded that he should gain the battle. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • This is an ambitious but important security mechanism; however, inadequate military resources, fragile political institutions, and weak economies forebode great difficulty in getting started.
  • We foreboded it, yet I was stupid enough to bring them.
  • Who is Pan and what exactly does his name forebode? Playback:stl Syndication
  • These developments forebode disaster.
  • A man at first, perhaps, feels a kind of grudging and uneasiness all over his body, a deadness upon his stomach, and a drowsiness upon his senses, and he cannot well tell what he ails; but after a few days these uncertain beginnings come to rage in a burning fever, or to strike him with an apoplex; and then it appears what those symptoms foreboded and tended to all along; and the great question now is, not when or how soon the man shall recover and be well, but whether or no he shall live. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
  • What it meant as to particulars I no more foreboded then than you forebode now, but it put me rather out of sorts. Doctor Marigold
  • The speeches of Oliver Cromwell have a formidable reputation for prolixity, confusion, and excessive tediousness; yet we have not, for our own part, found these volumes to be of the dry and scarce readable description which their title foreboded; and we would caution others not to be deterred by any fears of this nature from their perusal. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
  • They were all bush dogs or wild-dogs, and so small was their courage that their thirst and physical pain from cords drawn too tight across veins and arteries, and their dim apprehension of the fate such treatment foreboded, led them to whimper and wail and howl their despair and suffering. CHAPTER XVI
  • Much of the time, it's just a misspelling-for example, "forbode" instead of "forebode, CJR
  • The sobering presentation foreboded the future of Taiwan's relationship with the United States.
  • Their return in a second blister pack of two miniatures forebodes devastation among enemy ranks!

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